egyptians. triggered fears the country is turning into an islamic dictatorship the opposition is already making accusations of vote rigging. the u.s. . elementary school massacre targeting children rig nights the debate over. hundreds. some of the biggest protests in recent russian history several people have been arrested over the. for the first time a european call describes cia treatment of terror suspects torture with a german who mistakenly fell victim to the agency's interrogation techniques.

screen international news and comment live from moscow egyptians are voting on the new draft constitution that split the country inspired weeks of president protests the referendum is seen as a decisive moment that will show which way the majority of egyptians are leaning towards the ruling islamists or the liberal opposition has been so polling stations will now remain open until sunday morning report of true is in cairo for us. after three weeks of political turmoil that seen mass rallies against the president time to also bloody scenes in the streets of egypt's major cities overnight the military apparently beefed up security at the polling stations for people to come and vote they have course of being called in by the president to secure the nation during this time of political unrest and the referendum we expect are hundreds of

thousands of police officers and soldiers in the streets today ensuring that the scenes are calm this comes after violent scenes yesterday on friday alexandria egypt second city which saw clashes between rival protest groups to support the constitution and those against it including groups wielding machetes. also ion roads and with around about one thousand injured and possible we haven't had that confirmed yet this of course follows several weeks worth of buying seats on the streets of cairo the referendum is actually being held across two days is there not so sufficient a number of judges to supervise the process this opposition forces say is a major problem and could open up the referendum to vote rigging in addition civil society groups here questioning how that is possible for them to observe the elections to for electoral fraud since the head of the constituent assembly who drafted the constitution is also the head of the national human rights council

you'll be overseeing the observation all the polling stations the constitution itself is a major point of contention also the opposition forces they have said that it is written by islamist dominated constituent assembly of to be somebody when this mass will cross by liberal leftist and church and therefore it will only in full say religious state also they said will impose a presidential dictatorship and neglect key rights and freedoms of expression so this constitution they say should be rewritten the constituent assembly should be reforged will have to see. results of the referendum feature. and incidents of violence are accompanying the voting in egypt as bell reports on twitter saying at least four people have been injured in four different cities across the country since the beginning of the constitution referendum and you can check the latest updates under school call. or join me now is ahmed who are he's a political activist a member of the opposition the steward party well the opposition had considered

boycotting today's referendum but has decided against it why did it take that decision. well to be frank with say no to this constitution does not constitute a rigging of the votes happened and if a yes passes that we're going to recognize this as the constitution this is only a foot hold on the road to get our freedom our country back from this because i think that the ship we felt of boycotting for a very long time but again just so you know it's just one of the tools that we have in delivering a big message saying that this constitution shall not pass and it does not represent the egyptians we have done a little concerned because you are part of the party one of many factions of the opposition what is exactly concerning you what are you protesting against. i'm protesting against the kidnap of democracy because of the country the kidnap of the

egyptian dream of a better and a much the much deserved democracy and much of. our beloved country it's basically we've got a very deceiving document that's put together in a way that if you read each article on its own you'll find it as a mellow article putting a group of articles together like article two article ten article eight and article two nineteen you have i think. you have an absolute number and a president that appoints everybody that appoints the judges that should try him that warrants the the institutions that should oversee his if his corrupted or not we've got a constitution that basically who see as a pharaoh of egypt as a theocratic i know you all very harsh but you're part of the divided the opposition do you think that you will struggle to achieve anything unless the

entire opposition has more of a united voice. i disagree i totally disagree with you you're probably you're data is very behind we have all the opposition are in one front we've been in one front for a whole month now all the opposition forces are in one are unified we are having a. leader who will. see who will make messes and that from the opposition that if this referendum is accepted you will still oppose it and push. him in opposition because many are saying that this could be a chance for peace and stability in egypt if this referendum goes ahead and of course it is accepted. there is no piece of paper in any way or form that will dictate to me that my rights and freedoms are taken off me willingly this is the point a constitution is not a part of a democratic process

a constitution sets the boundaries of a democratic process so if there is a piece of paper that says that i'll be sure i'll be ruled by i think i think dictatorship my freedoms and rights will be stripped out of b. and there's a president that's going to be a minute and we cannot question his his actions we cannot question whatever policies he's making that means that this is not a constitution this is a declaration of dictatorship again the majority of the people are saying no there is widespread of rigging of the votes. dreamily extremely atrocious atrocities against the referendum integrity we've got judges that are blanking up papers say yes we've got judges that are blocking voters from getting inside the truth about the boxes and say you know we've got a ballot box is a group of clues against any christian vote that we've got ballot boxes that are closed against the voters and the clades already the ballots has not the ballot

that i was not yet and we see. judges are declaring that the ballot boxes are our start and declaring the numbers while we still have until eleven and after eleven o'clock where that about them is go and we are seeing atrocities were seeing ballot boxes that are not overseen by judges overseen by teachers from the muslim brotherhood we're seeing. widespread grieving over all of the people's opinion a government is very interesting here your thoughts thank you very much indeed for joining us ahmed omar a political activist a member of the opposition just to a party live there in cairo thanks for being with us live on r.t. thank you and the turbulence continues elsewhere in the arab world later the sound will have an insight from bahrain where anti-government protests have been defined an undefeated for almost two years now. but first the u.s. is coming to terms with the gunning down of twenty six people twenty of them children at a primary school in central connecticut the massacre ended only when the killer turned the gun on himself he's going to come and has the story. there's still lots

of questions as to what happened at that elementary school in connecticut the shooter has been identified at this point it was adam lanza twenty year old who went into his mother's kindergarten class she was a teacher at that school and wiped out the entire class twenty children were killed in the carnage eighteen children died at the scene two at the hospital those were five year olds six year olds small children the shooter also targeted and killed six adults and unless his mother the teacher was also found dead in her home near the school the suspect it. was the suspected shooter had three guns on him as he went into the school two handguns and one semiautomatic weapon all reportedly registered to adam lanza's mother a witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired after killing all these people at a lesser record lee shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the u.s.

in the past but never has there been a rampage that killed this many small children in two thousand and seven a student killed thirty two people at virginia tech we of course remember the columbine massacre in colorado where two students struck and killed thirteen people and injured twenty four but the children killed in connecticut were very very young we heard president obama delivered tearful speech this friday but nevertheless the white house has pretty much dodged questions on its gun policy and those are questions on many people's minds right now but the president this is a time of the take meaningful action would prevent mess occurs like this from happening again but what action he did not specifying with the fact of the matter is that getting a gun is fairly easy in the u.s. adam lanza's mother apparently had no problem purchasing and registering story guns one of them a semi automatic weapon and it's a powerful deadly weapon and one of the policy goals of president obama was a man on assault weapons but is thought to be

a losing proposition for any politician in the u.s. to. really seriously consider seriously take on the issue attempts to regulate guns inevitably hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment the right of the people to bear arms some states here do have controls over gun possession but again very limited controls the state of illinois for example used to have a ban on concealed weapons but this week a federal court ruling struck down the country's last such poor vision as unconstitutional and ordered the state to craft a law allowing it so much for gun control in the us the state of wisconsin passed out its ban on concealed weapons last year and it seems there is no way of arguing against the amendment even despite these absolutely horrifying and recurring incidents this latest tragedies reopen the debate to what many see as the weak gun control laws in the u.s. on his list to the white house to see an anti guns ready that. many people are

taking their concerns to the front of the white house as you can see about a hundred people are gathered here holding signs holding candles trying to make their voices heard saying that now is the time to talk about gun control and the u.s. we spoke to some of the protesters here's what they had to say today we saw a room full of kindergartners slaughtered by a guy who never should have gotten a gun. if our president can't talk about it the issue now as a father of two daughters young daughters i think it's time for him for a gut check in there's no more and no more excuses anymore this should not have happened we should have measures in place before this to prevent people from accessing guns who are not fit to hold them also in my opinion i don't think something that is military grade as an assault rifle i don't think that should be in the hands of anybody it's not a toy and we can't keep our teachers and our children and our school administrators

safe from that very day we can't keep people who are walking down the streets safe then that should be changed and to resign ourselves to the to saying that this is a problem that has a solution is defeatist and we should we should take this on and change what we did hear from press secretary jay carney earlier this morning he said today is not the day to be talking about gun control we also heard a very emotional speech from president obama sending his condolences to the victims to the family is in newtown connecticut he did not talk about the issue of guns or gun control but protesters here say if today is not the day in the wake of this very tragic mass shooting they don't know when that time will and washington are to well you know going to a website or two don't come from live updates on the story in there you'll also find the full timeline of the tragic events.

seven hundred people in. some of the biggest protests in russia's recent history around forty activists were arrested for taking part in a rally that was unauthorized most of them have since been released reports the authorities did not sanction any rallies to be held in this place saying that there is usually heavy traffic in this area and any mass gatherings could cause some additional problems they did hold long negotiations with the opposition before proposing other routes but field to reach an agreement as a result today several hundred people gathered in central moscow to mark one year since the start of anti-government protests in the country we have seen some arrests including those of opposition leaders again. they say that they were detained a lawful they claim that all the people who are gathered here this saturday are not

taking part in any rally they're just outside for a walk but all in all what's happening and here today is really of no comparison to what we've seen a year ago last december when truly tens of thousands of people took to the streets while here we're talking just about a few hundred. more international news after this short break stay with us. richest often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a force on the island of horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is

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here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even run in water for most people a tent is the on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. in journey to buy coal can be a trip of a lifetime and the local. say once you've seen it they'll be coming back again and again. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew. was a big picture. of

the world with. its technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've. covered. continues in her knowledge tens of thousands of people have marched in bahrain's capital as anti-government protests continue in the gulf the uprising has been going on for almost two years now and is often met with a brutal response by the country's security forces so you'd use from the bahrain

center for human rights says the authorities affirm in their actions because they enjoy western support. government of bahrain there have been a. long list of countries so that's why they don't pay i want to human rights violations more than one hundred of the said when i was in with. the things they did and. i'm going to have. their government behind it because they have going to accept all of them so i do intervene and so we're still going to do they don't care i want to human life is a behavior. we're out of victims because. we've got to make them because they're american. to which i'm going to so that's why they don't care about democracy and human rights they are killing people and people in a daily basis and they don't. do you still think it's you watching the t.v. and not the other way around when the night she company has now revealed the

technologies to make the t.v. spot. owners using the pill seem to camera and microphone more nice cold. and also a lot of them i want a new expense for chinese parents of the country's kindergartens introduce a feat if they want to start off the hog and love a child. so . thousands of people have taken to the streets of the portuguese capital to protest against next year's budget that includes the biggest tax hikes in the country's modern history portugal's government is committed to a sturdy measures struggles to meet the terms of its international creditors and as the painful cuts continue to cause misery the bank is far away from those problems

busy themselves with dodgy do you want me to. see her but suggest a little later this. has america got it in for british banks here that is britain who is played poodle to the al capone of the global financial and military industrial complex system and now al capone's turning on them when they're all sought but al capone in this case the u.s. regulators they want you know the u.k. to basically hire their cousin vinny h.s.b.c. for example has hired two former senior u.s. treasury officials to run it's legal in compliance department these u.k. backers are going to find a wake up of their skull hanging from friers bridge like roberta calvin from the eighty's hello british banker hanging from friars branch from the back you deserve . because a report coming away very shortly here in the cia agents illegally adopted

a german citizen sort of beat him up these are the findings of the european court of human rights and his first ever ruling that the cia is guilty of torture the court found in favor of a man who had failed for years to get legal acknowledgement in the us and europe of what happened to him khalid el masri says he was kidnapped in two thousand and three and abused after being mistaken for a terrorist u.s. is now being pursued for an apology and compensation for his store and dog valentine believes that's unlikely to happen as the cia operates above the norm. prison a prison term even in the united states of convicted of a crime these people are simply above the law in fact the only thing that the cia does is to conduct illegal activities which is why it's above the law it's business is doing things that are illegal so the fact that it's found guilty in europe or

asia or south america or any place of doing it illegal things is simply a confirmation of what it does the cia is not a rogue elephant that does things without prior authorization from congress and the president's national security officer everything that it does is policy. in other world headlines at least three people are dead and dozens injured after three rockets. and northern pakistan explosions were followed by heavy gun fire roads going to the airport have been closed nobody has claimed responsibility but peshawar has been repeatedly hit by similar attacks carried out by al qaeda and taliban militants. hundreds of people are gathered in central athens for an anti racism immigrants representatives of european races and groups as well as members of the socialist and the democratic left join the rally attacks against foreigners in the capital have been on the rise as the country dives deeper into financial

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the low level broker dealer thieves are the drone strike going up the family supply mouthwash in hand sometimes or. here do. yes max i thought a perfect analogy for what is happening a metaphor for what is happening in the global financial system banking system and economic systems around the world is a story that i've been tracking for the last year or two this problem of people drinking hand sanitizers move over boone's farm has set of ties is the new buzz in america has set of ties there's are like sixty percent alcohol in here in the u.k. they're up to seventy eight percent and people are getting drunk on these there because they're up to one hundred forty proof one hundred forty proof. that the people around the world i guess in america. see this is capitalism working this is

the austrian economics school which is just the values in the mind of the beholder you think they like morally wrong or would approve of drinking hand sanitizer this is a little paradise let's say. well . that's great stuff but i did just this glue i don't know what those fancy hints about if you get a tube of toasters glue you can they will medical experts warn against ingesting hand sanitizer as it can result in similar symptoms as excessive drinking loss of consciousness vomiting a lack of impulse control for they're going to extraordinary trouble to experiment with ingesting a non consumable cleansing agent in order to catch a buzz may be a sign of substance abuse issues similar to drinking it is drinking very caring but i actually would out all you know no one's going to tell next to have those kinds of fun.